• In the West Bank, UN humanitarian access to most towns and villages, while officially allowed, is often still delayed by bureaucratic procedures. Delivery is made more difficult by the fact that field offices remain short of personnel due to movement restrictions experienced by Palestinian staff members. Bethlehem remains a closed military area.

• Palestinians are also unable to move freely in most of the West Bank due to curfews, checkpoints, and ongoing IDF military operations. Curfews remain in place on a number of towns throughout the West Bank. Israel has closed off areas and restricted the movement of Palestinians during years of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed, marked by Palestinians suicide bombings and attacks against military and civilian targets and Israeli incursions into Palestinian controlled zones.

• Some 100,000 Palestinian jobs in Israel have been lost, agricultural production has fallen, and large parts of the Palestinian population are unable to get access to basic services such as health care, education, food and water.

• Malnutrition has been increasing with a percentage of children under 5 now suffering from chronic or acute malnutrition.

• There are also other UN agencies such as the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF is currently implementing a 'back to school' campaign to help ensure that the poorest Palestinian children can afford to stay in school. The campaign includes the provision of school uniforms and school bags - expenses that often keep poor children out of the classroom. The campaign is supporting over 14,000 children. Some 317,000 Palestinian school children are now in desperate need of assistance due to financial hardship.

• Torture also remains common against Palestinian prisoners during interrogations by Israeli forces, despite a 1999 Israeli Supreme Court ruling outlawing some interrogation methods. Such practices include: beatings, violent shaking, shining a hot burning light into the eyes and face at close range, sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, painful shackling, and forcing prisoners to remain in excruciating positions for long periods of time.

• On occasion the large scale military operations conducted by Israeli forces, which include curfews and closures and creation of closed military zones in the West Bank, have hindered the Agencies ability to carry out humanitarian functions in support of the Palestinian refugees. The movement of Humanitarian goods like medicine food blood and other items has often been blocked, or delayed. UNRWA staff members have been known to be in life threatening situations put there by Israeli forces. As far as the security council is involved they have failed to come up with some sort of peace in the region. This is in large part is due because of US veto’s and the failure of the rest of the security council to take a stand on the situation.

• The UNRWA educational services currently include both general and higher education as well as vocational, technical and teacher education. The UNRWA administers 59 refugee camps in its five areas of operation, and employs more than 20,000 persons, the majority being refugees. The professional and technical assistance is provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The purpose is to meet the educational needs

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